Debian GNU/Linux

The Debian Weekly News for May 4, 2004 is out. This week's topics include the discussions about releasing sarge in light of recent editorial changes to the social contract and the proposed amendments that have followed; a short howto on installing Debian stable using Knoppix; and several others.

The Debian-Installer team has announced the fourth beta release of the Debian sarge installer. Improvements in this release include support for arm, hppa, and mipsel architectures bringing the total up to nine supported architectures; experimental support for the 2.6 kernel on i386; detection of existing operating systems; new translations; plus many bug fixes and user interface improvements.

This Bits from the DPL (Debian and OASIS) features a report from Mark Johnson, Debian's representative at OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards). "Through our membership we have direct influence into the process of standards development. This benefit has proved particularly beneficial in the development of the XML Catalogs specification. During a key period of work on this specification, two of the seven committee members were from the Debian project. As a result, the final specification will be more easily implementable on Debian than it otherwise might've been."

A DebConf4 schedule has been posted. A small budget was found to provide needy Debian developers with some help for their DebConf travel expenses.

Here's a brief guide on Migrating to Linux Kernel 2.6 in Debian. (Found on Debian Planet)

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